What does one do when they have their Thursday afternoon absolutely cleared from any meetings, shoots, or work projects?

If you guessed “pay a visit to a famous local artist to teach him lessons in patience with the elderly while sharing some video-editing & story-telling tips.” you’d be right.  🙂

Who is “Paint the Trail Guy”?

After the 2008 recession, waiting for business to pickup in the construction industry, and slowing going insane, Jeff aka “Paint the Trail Guy”, decided to drop the hammer and pickup the paint brush.  Show-casing his brush strokes of iconic figures on fence panels all across entire city of Longwood and other parts of Central Florida, Jeff met several interesting people along the way.  Talk about his art, his projects, and his personality quickly spread across the town.  It wasn’t until he started documenting his paint projects and stories through video did he amass the 26,000 Facebook followers that tune-in to his antics.

Another great thing about Jeff is that he is an activist in his community.  Jeff is not afraid to tackle social issues, like when he helped the City of Longwood Commissioner and ex-professional wrestler, Matt Morgan, get elected this past November.  That’s actually where Jeff and I originally met in person and had our first discussion.  Fast-forward 4 months to March and I’m inviting myself and my dad over to “Paint the Trail Guy”‘s house for an unboxing video I wanted to cut together in 24 hrs for the YouTube Channel.  Jeff was the best side-kick for this project and I hope to work on future projects like this with him in the future.

The VLOG of when “Paint the Trail Guy” and I first met:

What is an Unboxing Video?

Well, I could show you, or I can tell you.  Let’s do both.  An Unboxing video is very simple.  You open a box in front of a camera.  THEN (and this is where it gets super tricky) you DESCRIBE what’s in the box.  Unboxing video, complete.  Of course though, you can’t have an unboxing video without some sort of entertaining person, environment, great lighting, or great message.  Luckily for us, we had a nice combination of all these things.

Check out our unboxing from this past Thursday, March 29th:

How Can We Keep Engaging Our Elderly?

Making sure we continue to engage with our elderly is a crucial part of the aging process.  When we forget about the importance of some family members their minds may start to wander, they may start developing cancers, HECK their limbs may start falling off.  Staying close to our family is not necessarily embedded in our culture, but as good people, it is something we should work harder at.